Lawyers can't find the parents of 666 migrant kids, a higher number than previously reported

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"About one third of those children were under 5 at the time of the separation, according to a source familiar with the data."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/lawyers-can-t-find-parents-666-migrant-kids-higher-number-n1247144

WASHINGTON — Lawyers working to reunite migrant families separated by the Trump administration before and during its "zero tolerance" policy at the border now believe the number of separated children for whom they have not been able to find parents is 666, higher than they told a federal judge last month, according to an email obtained by NBC News. About one third of those children were under 5 at the time of the separation, according to a source familiar with the data.

In the email, Steven Herzog, the attorney leading efforts to reunite the families, explains that the number is higher because the new group includes those "for whom the government did not provide any phone number." Previously, the lawyers said they could not find the parents of 545 children after they had tried to make contact but had been unsuccessful.

Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, explained to NBC News that the new number "includes individuals in addition to 545 for whom we got no information from government that would allow meaningful searches but are hopeful the government will now provide with that information."

The Trump administration imposed a "zero tolerance" policy on the U.S./Mexico border between April and June 2018 under which undocumented migrant parents and children were separated. Prior to the borderwide "zero tolerance" policy, the Trump administration tested family separation in a pilot program in the El Paso sector. The vast majority of the children referenced in the email obtained by NBC News were separated during this pilot program, but the total also includes some children who were separated under zero tolerance.

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[ret5hd]

1. Well...what an apt number.

[shelshaw]

3. On the mark...

[Alacritous Crier]

2. The work of the Beast.

[SoonerPride]

4. Surely that number isn't a coincidence

It just can’t be

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

Trumpochet.

Trump, Miller, others should be jailed for this alone. What they did at the border. America has to stop pretending that crimes committed by presidents are nothing more than a policy difference.


That allows for any atrocity committed by a president to be labeled a policy difference.

Such as with torture.

Jim Crow laws were considered policy. Didn't make them any less an egregious violation of rights, that allowed for the abuse and harm of black people. Didn't make those racist "laws" any less damaging. Giving acts of violence the color of law doesn't make it right. Doesn't justify it. Doesn't excuse it.

Please. If this country is to have any chance at all of surviving as a democratic-republic, stop pretending presidents are anything other than what they are - they're humans. Nothing more. And humans are capable of heinous acts. Presidents are not imbued with some sort of aura of goodness or dignity or integrity or decency upon entering office.

That claptrap belief is in the minds of people wanting to desperately believe that a leader is somehow good because it somehow reflects upon them as good people as well, and the country as a whole. Treat a criminal like a criminal regardless of the title they hold.

A criminal president doesn't mean the country is criminal - unless said country pretends a criminal president isn't a criminal.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

6. Like undelivered ballots - we will never hear the actual total.

Maybe the Four Seasons Landscape employees could do a better job.

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7. The lawsuit bills can be sent to the tRump Organization to pay.

[uponit7771]

8. The news on this continues to get worse, I'm bracing for mass graves and stoves and shit